Monday 3 September 2012

ControlDraw Model to Web Site
ControlDraw now provides the ability to generate a web site from the model.
This means that people will be able to view a model without the need to install any software or work from PDF output from the Reviewer.
The web version is of course much simpler than the original model and does not support such functions as running diagrams in simulation mode. However it is still useful.
Example is available to view here.
You can click on the objects that have numbers by them to go to the detailed diagram for the object,much like you can in ControlDraw itself

Each web page is a diagram page in the ControlDraw model.
Each ControlDraw diagram page is saved as a png file including automatic generation of the hot spots as an HTML ImageMap
The page description HTML was generated from the page RTF text

A more advanced version will soon be available that supports navigation view with a Hierarchical menu